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Message:: [QUOTE="RedTiger, post: 836224, member: 19098"]Many novices tend to lean too heavily towards either marks or luster. Sounds like you are leaning too heavily towards marks. From the small pics you posted, I would vote MS64 perhaps 65, because the luster and strike look about average. Perhaps it is much better than that, but a MS68 is going to have knockout luster and a hammered strike that can call a Franklin collector from ten feet away. Without seeing the coin in hand, it would be impossible to determine that. It is possible, that you have a true MS68, however, the odds are small. Where did the mint set come from? If from recent dealer stock, odds are decent that batch of sets has been picked over by Franklin collectors, and the odds of a "wonder coin" go down. If the set is original from the mint, first owner, the odds are a bit higher, but it still like 1 in 50,000 for a MS68 coin. That's why they go for so much money. If MS68s were found in every batch of 100 sets (top 1% of coins), the price wouldn't be much. Again, marks are only part of the equation for high mint state coins. Strike and luster both have to be in the top 1% of coins to even have a shot at MS68. Again, no way to tell that from the small photos, but the odds are against it.[/QUOTE]